Sentences with phrase «existing coal fleet»
Consider the Prairie State Energy Campus, with more than $ 1 billion in clean coal technologies and criteria emissions some 80 % below the existing coal fleet... along with a carbon dioxide emission rate some 40 % below existing plants.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
That means China's entire continuing coal fleet could be more efficient than any existing U.S. coal plant, according to a report released in May by the liberal Center for American Progress.
Yet, even if every planned reactor in China was to be built, the country would still rely on burning coal for more than 50 percent of its electric power — and the Chinese nuclear reactors would provide at best roughly the same amount of energy to the developing nation as does the existing U.S. fleet.
Here is a scalable mechanical alternative for post-combustion CO2 capture (and flue gas scrubbing) which could be retrofitted to the existing fleet of pulverized coal plants: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2009/0013867.pdf
«The world has a huge existing fleet of existing coal plants,» Mr. Sandalow said.
They can build more coal plants, driving up their prices by competing with themselves; or they can flood their electricity markets with the maximum possible volume of non-coal power, enabling their existing fleet to operate at much lower costs and weakening the price power of coal exporters.
Synapse evaluates the impact of existing and expected environmental regulations on coal - fired power plants, both at the individual plant and fleet levels.
Ultra-supercritical units are superior to the existing fleet of traditional coal - fired power plants that have a thermal efficiency of only 32 % HHV.
In addition to calling on high income countries to stop building new, unabated coal - fired power plants immediately and accelerate the retirement of their existing plants, the report also calls on middle income countries to limit new coal - fired power plants and begin retiring their existing fleet by 2025.
Flat or declining Illinois electricity demand has resulted in an electricity oversupply thanks to Exelon's 11 - plant nuclear fleet, Dynegy and NRG coal fleets, existing, retrofitted, and new natural gas facilities, and a growing wind portfolio, according to Learner.
To remain consistent with the IEA's 2 °C scenario (2DS) China can avoid building any new coal plants from now until 2032 by marginally increasing the utilization of their existing fleet.
By regulating carbon emissions from existing coal plants, Obama is essentially forcing utilities to take the cost of pollution into consideration for generation fleets.